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\n\t\u201cScarface<\/em> the movie did more than Scarface<\/a> the rapper to me.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThat\u2019s what Jay-Z rapped towards the end of \u201cIgnorant S\u2014\u201d featuring Philly\u2019s Beanie Sigel from his 2007 album American Gangster<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tDuring an appearance on Marc Maron\u2019s WTF<\/em>\u00a0podcast to plug his new memoir Sonny Boy<\/a><\/em>, the legendary actor Al Pacino talked about how the audience helped turn the remake of the 1932 film<\/a> of the same name into a cultural phenomenon after it was initially panned by critics and Hollywood insiders. Pacino\u2019s co-star Steven Bauer, who played Manolo, once said<\/a> director Martin Scorsese warned them about the possible response during the movie\u2019s premiere. \u201cAt the premiere Martin Scorsese turned around in the middle of the film, and he said, \u2018You guys are great \u2014 but be prepared, because they\u2019re going to hate it in Hollywood.\u2019 He said that to me and he didn\u2019t know me from Adam. \u201cAnd I said, \u2018Why?\u2019 He said, \u2018Because it\u2019s about them.’\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI was surprised that it had that reaction,\u201d Pacino said after admitting that he had lost interest in acting at the time. \u201cThe audiences liked it. Took a while.\u201d Adding, \u201cHip-hop just got it. They understood it. They embraced it, the rappers. And then the next thing you know, VHS is going out and more people are seeing it. Plus, we\u2019re on the records, these rappers. And then it just carried and it kept going and going.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tDirected by Brian De Palma, and starring Al Pacino in a role that revitalized his already storied career, Scarface has been one of the hip-hop community\u2019s favorite films since its release in 1983. Those from the inner city and marginalized communities saw themselves in Tony Montana\u2019s rise to power as a Cuban immigrant during Miami\u2019s cocaine glory days in the early \u201980s. This feeling was depicted in 2002\u2019s Paid in Full, the movie loosely based on the lives of Harlem kingpins Rich Porter, AZ Faison, and Alpo Martinez as they too rose from nothing to becoming three of the most influential drug dealers in American pop culture.<\/p>\n